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| Rock Inn, at Haytor, a very pretty little village on Dartmoor. | |  | |  |
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Huckworthy Bridge is a very pretty spot on Dartmoor, which we passed through on our way to Sampford Spinney. |
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Sampford Spinney is quite a remote little village on Dartmoor, with a very old church and a few farm houses and a manor house. |
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Lydford is a small village quite near to Okehampton. This is the chapel which is now in use as a residence. A typical old style red telephone box is seen in front. |
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The church at Buckland in the Moor. |
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| General views of Dartmoor on a November morning in 2006. The first showing early morning mist. | | | | |
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A Cattle grid... helps to stop the animals from straying off the moor. |
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| Belstone is a little village on Dartmoor in Devon. Not a lot there, but there is a church and chapel and a pub, along with large old houses. We walked through the village, and up past some water treatment works, to a gate onto the moor. It was a short walk from there, to find the Stone Ring. (next 6 pics.) | | | | |
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| Widecombe is a very pretty village located on Dartmoor in Devon. The annual fair takes place in October. These are only a few of the many stalls at the fair in 2006. | | | | |
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Just a few of the Town Criers taking part in the mini town criers contest, on fair day. Old Uncle Tom Cobbley riding his old grey mare. There's a folk song about all these characters going to Widecombe fair on the old grey mare. |
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This is the grave of a poor girl called KITTY JAY, who died in the 1700's, only in her late teens. She had been "apprenticed" at a farm close to Manaton, and fell pregnant, which was a disgrace in those days. As no-one would help her, she committed suicide. Because of this, she was not allowed to be buried at a church. So she was buried at a crossroads where the parish boundaries met. Supposedly there are always fresh flowers on her grave, but no-one knows who puts them there. But as you can see from the pics, we must have chosen the wrong day to visit. |
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Widecombe gnomes |
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